At the front two corner points are created by a pair of widely spaced and, in the females, very flat thorns.

They are dominated by dark brown, almost black tones, which are complemented by yellow-orange species-specific drawings.

As is typical for the representatives of the Obriminae, at the end of the abdomen they have a rather short secondary ovipositor for laying eggs in the ground.

[9] After this was also with the Obrimini synonymized in 2021, the genus was granted its own tribe due to its already mentioned exception regarding the morphology of the secondary ovipositor.

[5] Younger genetic analysis based investigations confirm the phylogenetic special position of the genus within the subfamily.

Josef Redtenbacher described in 1906 with Hoploclonia cuspidata a second species based on a female.

The second male is a nymph who has a pair of spines on the second abdominal segment, so more than Hoploclonia gecko, but less than the other two species.

[11] Sarah Bank et al show in their investigations that there is a fourth, as yet undescribed species, which was found at Mount Pagon in Brunei.

The first species introduced in 1987 was Hoploclonia gecko by Philip Bragg, which was given the PSG number 110 by the Phasmid Study Group.

They are easy to feed on leaves of bramble (blackberries) or oak, but are considered difficult to keep or to breed.